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Unexpected Find

Reader Contribution by Mel Boone
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Just this past weekend, I went to the last tractor show of the season that I exhibited my Massey Ferguson tractor at. As with every tractor show that I go to, I enjoy going through the flea market vendors. I never really know what I’ll find.

This year was no exception. The second day of the show I found one item that I had completely overlooked the first day.

I can’t believe I missed it the first day and I’m so very happy that I did see it. It was a souvenir from the Shepherd of the Hills theater in Branson, MO., a 70-piece Old Mat’s log cabin kit.

I couldn’t believe it! I’ve been there once to see the show. That was about 30 years ago.

Got to the theater twenty minutes before the show started and left once it ended. I never got to buy any trinkets to remember the trip by. I did however, buy the book from a little shop at Silver Dollar City.

I was so delighted to find this log cabin kit. You would have thought that I had struck gold.

For a five dollar bill, it went home with me. I’m not sorry for buying it and my “inner child” wants to play with it!

It’s a treasured item now, along with the book that Harold Bell Wright wrote well over 100 years ago. My book is by no means a first edition, but I’ve totally loved reading it again.

For the longest time, I have thought that the Shepherd of the Hills theater was closed, but a google search does show that it has shows this 2018 season. I know I won’t make it back down there to watch it again this year, but who knows, perhaps I can make a trip back to it sometime soon.


Photo property of Mel Boone.